Title: Trimming Your Waistline: Ten Steps to Better Health and Fitness
Author: R. Matheny, PhD.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 978-1-5320-6241-4
Pages: 178
Genre: Nutrition
Reviewed by: Ella Vincent

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Trimming Your Waistline is an informative book from nutritionist R. Matheny. Matheny’s advice about weight loss and nutrition will be insightful to readers. Trimming Your Waistline gives practical advice on how to lose weight. Matheny gives detailed advice to readers on how to maintain a healthy weight using a holistic approach. Matheny tells readers to weigh themselves regularly to keep track of their weight and exercise often during a weight-loss regimen. The book also recommends eating a balanced diet filled with fruits and vegetables. In addition to diet and exercise, Trimming Your Waistline advises readers to examine the psychological reasons for overeating and how to eat as part of a healthier lifestyle.

Trimming Your Waistline is a book that is unique from other weight-loss books in that the text does not offer a quick fix to weight loss. In an era of weight-loss pills and fad diets; this book is refreshingly honest about how to really stay fit. Matheny truthfully tells readers that losing weight is a lifelong process that is difficult, but important for readers to maintain their health. The text also details the types of foods that are best for readers to eat, like foods rich in Vitamin A and whole grains. Matheny also details how to make better eating choices when eating out in restaurants.

Matheny’s book helpfully adds charts to enable reader’s track their body mass index to see if they’re maintaining a healthy weight. Trimming Your Waistline also has useful exercises to help readers track their weight-loss journeys. The ten steps to staying fit are easy to follow and implement in readers’ everyday lives. Perhaps the most helpful part of the book is the section with affirming statements in which readers are encouraged to tell themselves throughout their quest to lose weight. Trimming Your Waistline proves that mental preparation is just as important as physical activity to lose maintain a healthy weight.

This book would be best for readers who want a holistic and long-term approach to losing weight. The text would be ideal for readers who want to combat obesity through diet, exercise, and positive messaging. The book could be read by fans of weight-loss books like Eat This, Not That! by David Zinczenko and Matt Goulding.

Trimming Your Waistline is an insightful text that will help readers fit lives through proper diet, exercise, and mental health. Additionally, this book gives us the tools to change our lives and quit this vicious cycle. I am excited to implement it in my own life. Everyone who ever wanted to lose weight, and keep it off, should read this book.